Conan Moslin

Chapter 196: Looking Around (7) Secret Room

Before the case happens, let us go through the process.

Conan just ran up the stairs and opened the door that was not closed tightly, when he saw a huge monster knocking over a pile of books beside the table and rolling down from the seat behind the desk.

The client, Tsujimura Kimie, squatted down with a pale face, shook her husband's shoulders in panic, and cried out anxiously: "Husband, what's wrong with you, husband!"

"Don't touch him!"

Kogoro Mori took two steps forward and pulled Tsujimura Kimie away. Before he had time to look, Hattori Heiji squatted down to check on him.

His eyebrows twitched, but he still didn't scold this arrogant boy whom he had only met once.

"Sister Li An! Call a doctor quickly!"

At the same time, Conan turned around and shouted to the people downstairs, then rushed over.

He barely noticed a suspicious and hidden red dot on the very short hair of the person on the ground. He was about to look around to see if there was any weapon, but when he turned around, he bumped into Hattori Heiji.

"Ouch!"

Li An led a group of people upstairs. As an intern doctor, Katsuragi Sachiko was the first to go to the scene to provide first aid, but it was too late.

"No need, he's dead."

Hattori Heiji rubbed his head and glared at the child, then said to Mr. Mori and Sachiko who was squatting down to check.

"Call the police."

……

Li An didn't want to watch the whole process of the murderer killing people, he just needed to pay attention to Conan's situation to keep up.

After all, if she saw some covert movements but kept silent, several detectives would question her professionalism as a magician after solving the case.

It’s better not to look at it. Out of sight, out of mind. You don’t have to worry about being asked all kinds of questions.

And she did.

"I don't know what happened. I just followed Mr. Maori to visit Mr. Tsujimura's house."

"Yes, I didn't have time to go upstairs, so I didn't see anything."

"Officer Sato wants to ask about the school uniform I'm wearing? This is an accident. My original clothes were sent to the laundry... If you hadn't come, I would have gone to pick them up at this time..."

So, the police officers came over quickly as if they were patrolling nearby. Li An acted as if he was not involved and shook his head and said he knew nothing when asked, which made Sato Miwako, an acquaintance who came to take the statement, feel helpless.

"The deceased, Tsujimura Isao, was 54 years old and a current diplomat."

Not far away, Inspector Megure also asked Maori Kogoro for confirmation with a frown on his face: "There happened to be a detective at the scene where the deceased was found..."

Maori Kogoro saluted: "Yes, Officer Megure, it's me, Maori Kogoro!"

"So, this is a murder case, Brother Mori?" Inspector Megure was even more speechless.

"Well... I don't see any obvious external injuries on his body... so..."

"Please take a closer look at the body." Hattori Heiji said affirmatively, "This must be..."

"It was poisoned, right?" Conan at the side spoke up, and as if he had thought of something, he looked up and added, "Uncle Maori, I just saw a red dot like a pinhole on this grandfather's neck!"

It's shameful to use double words to act cute, Conan!

Kogoro Mori immediately squatted down and parted the dead man's sparse short hair at the roots, and saw a red dot in a hidden place.

"That's true..."

The police officer nearby immediately took a photo.

So what exactly did the officers who were conducting the inspection search for?

Li An felt that the police officers' work ability was really worrying.

Hattori Heiji heard what Conan said, looked at him and continued: "Although the deceased died with his hand on his cheek, in my opinion, he was probably stabbed with a weapon like a poison needle and then deliberately put himself in this position."

"But this could also be a suicide case..." Kogoro Mouri retorted weakly.

"Don't you understand? Look at this body. The deceased's lips and the tips of his hands and feet have begun to turn purple. There are spots of bleeding on his conjunctiva. These are all evidence of death by suffocation."

When Li An heard his words, he glanced at the man on the ground. Looking at the obvious bruises on his face and lips, he suddenly remembered something.

Putting aside the two options of toxic asphyxiation and mechanical asphyxiation, does pathological asphyxiation also manifest itself in the same way?

"Ms. Kuriyasu?" Officer Sato saw that she was in a trance and called out tentatively, "Have you thought of anything?"

Li An came back to his senses and said, "Oh, that's right. I was wondering if Mr. Tsujimura, who passed away, had a history of heart disease?"

"Are you trying to say..." Officer Sato looked at the body, "Maybe the deceased died of a heart attack?"

Li An did not reply immediately. He looked at the dead man's clothes again. They were clean, fitting and very tight, with no trace of wrinkles at all over the heart.

This would not be the case if the suffocation was caused by a heart attack or angina.

"No." She shook her head at several police officers, "This Hattori... Detective is right, he probably doesn't have an acute illness."

"only……"

She looked at the carpet, recalling the scene she had just come in.

The ground was covered with red carpet, and except for the person lying on the ground, it was relatively clean.

It's just that the carpet is too clean...it seems like something is missing.

"You persuaded the department..." Inspector Megure missed the point, "Are you the son of Hattori Heizo, the current chief of the Osaka Police Department, who is still in high school?"

Hattori Heiji ignored Inspector Megure and continued with his long speech of reasoning.

"We can confirm that... Mr. Tsujimura was poisoned to death by the murderer within 30 minutes before we entered the study!"

"The murderer is near this house!"

Hattori Heiji quickly put forward his own speculation, which was similar to what Conan thought.

What was inferred from Hattori Heiji's reasoning was that the only key in the study with a purple pendant slipped out of the small pocket of the deceased during the inspection by Inspector Megure.

It heralds the official start of a "competition" for a closed-room murder case.

Of course, it was a unilateral decision made by Hattori Heiji.

Conan's condition became even worse. Even though the loud opera sound in the room had stopped, he still felt a little tinnitus.

The music playing in the study is opera, not the classical music that Tsujimura Isao likes...

On the table are carefully placed hardcover books...

The photo that cannot be seen due to blurred vision...

There are also traces of tape and gaps where the key pendant was opened...

Oops, his cold is getting worse...

We need to solve this case quickly...

"Why is Hattori Heiji missing?"

"The young man just asked where the Japanese-style room was and ran away."

Japanese-style room... ?